I don’t know if this makes a lot of sense but here goes. A long time ago while I was studying in Japan I had started to feel poorly on a random Tuesday morning. This was horribly timed because I had my teaching job that Tuesday, then a very busy week at the university including some exams and a social thing on Friday. So I literally looked into the mirror and went ‘NO!! We’re too busy to get sick!! You can get sick on Saturday’. And I felt fine for the rest of the day, and the rest of the week. I already thought it might have been just a random passing feeling. And then on Saturday morning I woke up full-on sick.
I think sometimes our bodies hold together somehow when they feel they have no choice, and then let go when they feel they’re allowed. Maybe that’s overmystifying things slightly but I have felt this more than once.
This absolutely happens. Almost every single time I fully take time off, I get ill for a decent chunk of it. Adrenaline and cortisol I think can hold off a lot of viruses and bugs, but they can't keep them away forever and I think it tends to hit worse when it eventually does hit. This is why we need to be working much more sustainable and calm hours, so that we don't have to ever get that big hit.
And, actually, it makes me lean more toward what I had been aiming for, which is travelling while working - just with only a few hours' work in each day.
I think that’s an amazing balance if you can maintain it. The mind still refreshes through new sights and experiences, routine shakes up, but work isn’t piling up in the background.
Me though when I get into it I work really long days just because my hyperfocus drives me. I have a really hard time picking up and putting down things. Doing a ‘few hours of work’ is virtually impossible, my brain won’t even let me start if I know I have to stop in a few hrs
I don’t know if this makes a lot of sense but here goes. A long time ago while I was studying in Japan I had started to feel poorly on a random Tuesday morning. This was horribly timed because I had my teaching job that Tuesday, then a very busy week at the university including some exams and a social thing on Friday. So I literally looked into the mirror and went ‘NO!! We’re too busy to get sick!! You can get sick on Saturday’. And I felt fine for the rest of the day, and the rest of the week. I already thought it might have been just a random passing feeling. And then on Saturday morning I woke up full-on sick.
I think sometimes our bodies hold together somehow when they feel they have no choice, and then let go when they feel they’re allowed. Maybe that’s overmystifying things slightly but I have felt this more than once.
This absolutely happens. Almost every single time I fully take time off, I get ill for a decent chunk of it. Adrenaline and cortisol I think can hold off a lot of viruses and bugs, but they can't keep them away forever and I think it tends to hit worse when it eventually does hit. This is why we need to be working much more sustainable and calm hours, so that we don't have to ever get that big hit.
And, actually, it makes me lean more toward what I had been aiming for, which is travelling while working - just with only a few hours' work in each day.
I think that’s an amazing balance if you can maintain it. The mind still refreshes through new sights and experiences, routine shakes up, but work isn’t piling up in the background.
Me though when I get into it I work really long days just because my hyperfocus drives me. I have a really hard time picking up and putting down things. Doing a ‘few hours of work’ is virtually impossible, my brain won’t even let me start if I know I have to stop in a few hrs